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I'll also add that BD is a great choice if you're a good conductor with leadership skills and have never marched. If you really want to give yourself an edge, Pete is usually partial to people who live in the area with a pickup truck :)

I really like where that kind of idea could go hit me up on github @ justinsoliz when you get something going, I'd love to contribute. I think this also raises a broader question in that I'm sure there are plenty of ageouts who have since gone into software development. What can we do as ageouts to start churning out more open source apps for the community? I think a good start might be an official github organization for dci, drumcorps or something along those lines... edit: Right after I posted this I realized a better starting place might be replacing the crap version of the dci website they have right now. At minimal, something far more presentable on mobile/tablet devices would be nice.

Concentrate on auditioning however you're most comfortable, even if its on trombone. The staff will most likely assign splits anyway based on your strength and others around you. The rest works itself out.

actually to be more specific, John Meehan (BD brass staff) taught SCV, his brother Tim was in the hornline

Dude enjoy your summer off. It might be your last until you ageout after which you'll probably have school and/or a real job.

A lot of people bring up 2001, I think it's one of the best case studies of 'clean' vs 'design'. Cavies won GE (essentially design) but failed to win any performance caption. I think Drums went to Cadets and Brass, Guard, Viz Performance went to BD. You can't have good design numbers without good performance from the members because then the design fails to communicate and vice versa but I think generally you focus on the second half of the performance captions (Brass, Guard, Drums, Viz) which is 'Ach'. In GE terms this falls under 'Effect through excellence'

Any age 'minimum' is usually at the discretion of the specific corps, otherwise there really is no minimum age for drumcorps.

Just to elaborate, there really isn't 'housing' for camps and all days. When I marched at bd, we split hotel rooms for camps and rented an apartment for all days.

You mean besides beating both of them this season?

I completely agree with the demand in Cadets program but to say that BD 'doesnt do anything visually to impair their playing' is flat out ridiculous.

This might be the silliest thing I've seen on DCP (and I've been here awhile...)

Crazy, I went to UTSA, never knew about a marching band.

I seem to remember a pretty epic pillow fight with Scv and Phantom during Tour of Champions. Thats gotta count for some kind of a rivalry.

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This is almost comical. I'd say that most of the people who voted for crown 09 havent seen or heard a lot of the previous years, at least live anyway. I think Crown was the best line in 09 but in this decade alone, I feel that there were quite a few hornlines that were better. 2000 Cadets, 2001 Cadets, 2001 Devs, 2002 Cavaliers, 2004 Blue Devils, 2004 Cavaliers, 2005 Cadets, 2007 Cadets, 2007 Bluecoats...